Women's Review of Books Volume 30, Issue 3

May/June 2013

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Outside the Outsiders Clementine Hunter: Her Life and Art By Art Shriver and Tom Whitehead
Reviewed by Marilyn Richardson

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WRB Celebrating 30 Years Anniversary Tribute from Gloria Steinem

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Imagining the Impossible Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Politics By Urvashi Vaid
Reviewed by Bettina Aptheker

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Promoting Trans-Literacy Transfeminist Perspectives In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies Edited by Anne Enke
Reviewed by Cressida J. Heyes

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The Voice Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights By Mariana Warner
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice By Terry Tempest Williams
Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz

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“What Does Henry Want?” Bring Up the Bodies By Hilary Mantel
Reviewed by Jessica Jernigan

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Field Notes Faith and Its Elusiveness The Two Yvonnes: Poems By Jessica Greenbaum
Reviewed by Robin Becker

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Essay Lesbians on the Move By Judy Grahn

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Photography Hellen van Meene: A Delicate Balancing Act Photographs by Hellen van Meene Commentary by Cassandra Goldwater

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Always Another Fight Elsewhere, California By Dana Johnson
Reviewed by Valerie Miner

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Oh Make Me Real! Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life By Natalie Dykstra
Reviewed by Judith Fetterley

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Poetry By Shirley Powers

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The History Beneath History Out of It By Selma Dabbagh
Of Noble Origins By Sahar Kahalifeh
Reviewed by M. Lynx Qualey

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The Organization In the Shadows of the Banyan By Vaddey Ratner
Reviewed by Marianne Villanueva

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The Authors of Their Lives NW By Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Susan Alice Fischer

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A Question of Safety The Round House By Louise Erdrich
Flight Behavior By Barbara Kingsolver
Reviewed by A. J. Verdell

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Funny Then, Funny Now We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy: A Very Oral History By Yael Kohen
Reviewed by Roz Warren

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Who Would Jesus Deport? Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience By Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon
National Insecurities: Immigrants and US Deportation Policy Since 1882 By Deidre M. Moloney
“I Am an American”: Filming the Fear of Difference By Cynthia Weber
Reviewed by Katarzyna Marciniak